Working with Us

The Work

SeedCode is a Salesforce ISV and we provide a lot of support to our customers as they deploy our flagship app, DayBack Calendar. You’ll be emailing and screen-sharing with customers to help them map the calendar to the fields and objects in their organization. And you’ll be extending calendar actions in JavaScript to help customers customize calendar behaviors to match their workflow. 

You’re not afraid to call or video chat with customers and have them ask questions you can’t answer right away (you’ll have our team to help you). And ideally, you have some customer-facing experience; working on a software help desk, in IT support, or consulting on your own.

You’ll be writing a lot of emails telling customers how to modify our app, so you’re a fluid and confident writer. You’ll also be augmenting our documentation so it would be a plus if you’ve done some technical writing before, writing FAQs or blog posts. And if you want to increase your profile in the Salesforce ecosystem, we’ll encourage you to blog about your work.

The position is a true mix of support and development: there’s a lot of listening to what customers are looking for and suggesting solutions–many of which are well documented so customers can deploy them on their own. And there is a fair amount if coding; working in a customer’s org to build formula fields or triggers, or customizing DayBack’s custom actions in JavaScript to get customers the behaviors they need. 

Are you looking for an experienced JavaScript developer?

Yes. You definitely need more experience with Salesforce than with JavaScript since you’ll usually be customizing existing JavaScript actions instead of writing JS from scratch. But you need to know how to write and debug JS–more JavaScript experience will move you towards the top of our salary range. You should be able to look at some of the custom action examples here and feel confident changing them; extending any SOQL queries in them, adding some error trapping, or looping through the JSON to format results.

Are you looking for a certified Salesforce Admin?

Not necessarily, though folks who are good at this kind of work have likely pursued certification. You should be able to make new objects and fields in a customer’s org and create relationships, triggers, and test classes. You should be able to write SOQL queries, including those that traverse junction tables.

Our product doesn’t have any custom objects of its own, so a lot of the work is helping customers map the calendar’s requirements to their existing object model.

How to apply

Please send a note with your resume and work samples (below) to [email protected] along with any questions you may have.

Samples of your work

Salesforce / JavaScript – We’d love to see some of your work, your side project, or whatever best represents where you’re at with JS and Salesforce. It can sometimes be hard to show examples of your Salesforce work so descriptions or screenshots can work. If all your work was done for your employer and you can’t share any of it, we understand and can talk about that work during your interview.

Writing – Communication (and empathy) are the keys to building great software. So we want to know that you can write well. If you’re blogging, just send us a recent post you like or a video from a talk you’ve given. Otherwise, please send us a paragraph or two about some issue on which you’ve picked a side. This doesn’t have to be something you’re passionate about and it needn’t be political. It could even be a coding issue or some mundane item you’ve changed your mind about. We find that we’re often laying out the pros and cons of competing approaches to our customers or team members, so we’d like your writing sample to do that for us: pick any topic you’d like, and help us decide between two options.

Hiring process

1. Send us an email with your resume, work, and writing sample described above.

2. Phone call with the CEO: non-technical, getting to know each other and seeing if this could be a fit.

3. Video chat with the CEO and members of the team, talking about your experiences, and everyone’s goals. Some of the discussion will be technical, but no coding.

4. Take-home coding challenge to extend two JavaScript actions in DayBack (including SOQL) and add a trigger in Salesforce. Questions highly encouraged. 

5. Video chat to discuss the challenge. Call references and do a background check.

6. Offer extended.

7. Join the DayBack team.

The Work

SeedCode is a FileMaker Platinum Partner developing and supporting DayBack Calendar, but we do a lot of custom development around that product to both extend it and to build solutions alongside it. Sometimes we take on compelling projects completely unrelated to calendaring. But in general, you’ll work on a greater variety of projects here than you would in a tradtional FileMaker firm, because most of our engagements are on the smaller side (< 100 hrs) where we’re augmenting another FileMaker firm or complementing the work of in-house developers.  

We work in small chunks, so you’ll be delivering weekly and probably working on two or three projects each month. The work is very detail-oriented when it comes to layouts, and we’ll expect pixel-perfect fidelity to mockups or patterns established in other layouts.

You’re not afraid to call or video chat with customers. And ideally, you have some customer-facing experience; working on a software help desk, in IT support, or consulting on your own.

You’ll be writing a lot of emails telling customers how to modify our app or how to extend your own code, so you’re a fluid and confident writer. You’ll also be augmenting our documentation so it would be a plus if you’ve done some technical writing before, writing FAQs or blog posts. And if you want to increase your profile in the FileMaker ecosystem, we’ll encourage you to blog about your work.

Are you looking for an advanced FileMaker developer?

No. You don’t need to be fluent in JavaScript or very experienced connecting FileMaker to 3rd party APIs–though that kind of experience will move you toward the higher end of our salary range. And if you’re interested in learning that stuff, you’ll certainly have opportunities at SeedCode. We’re looking for someone with a solid understanding of FileMaker basics who can follow patterns in big FileMaker solutions and extend those patterns. You’ve likely built and delivered FileMaker projects before, and this is not your first job in tech. You’ve probably worked with FileMaker Server, PSOS, and maybe with SQL in FileMaker, though probably need to look things up when you do. That’s OK. We all look things up; you’ll have the team at SeedCode to help you.

I thought DayBack was all about JavaScript?

Even though DayBack is written in JS, it still uses traditional FileMaker scripts to retrieve and edit records. So while some customizations to the calendar are done by injecting custom JS into the app (examples), most customizations are still done in FileMaer.

How to apply

Please send a note with your resume and work samples (below) to [email protected] along with any questions you may have.

Samples of your work

FileMaker Work – We’d love to see screenshots of your work, your side project, or whatever best represents where you’re at with FileMaker. If all your work was done for an employer and you can’t share any of it, we understand and can talk about that work during your interview.

Writing – Communication (and empathy) are the keys to building great software. So we want to know that you can write well. If you’re blogging, just send us a recent post you like or a video from a talk you’ve given. Otherwise, please send us a paragraph or two about some issue on which you’ve picked a side. This doesn’t have to be something you’re passionate about and it needn’t be political. It could even be a coding issue or some mundane item you’ve changed your mind about. We find that we’re often laying out the pros and cons of competing approaches to our customers or team members, so we’d like your writing sample to do that for us: pick any topic you’d like, and help us decide between two options.

Hiring process

1. Send us an email with your resume, work, and writing sample described above.

2. Phone call with the CEO: non-technical, getting to know each other and seeing if this could be a fit.

3. Video chat with the CEO and members of the team, talking about your experiences, and everyone’s goals. Some of the discussion will be technical, but no coding.

4. Take-home coding challenge to make a small customization to the FileMaker scripts/layouts in DayBack. Questions highly encouraged. 

5. Video chat to discuss the challenge. Call references and do a background check.

6. Offer extended.

7. Join the SeedCode team.